cutePDF Writer - great free tool for writers or for the office
You don’t need to buy Adobe Acrobat Distiller to make PDFs. CutePDF is an AWESOME freeware PDF utility, with no crapware. Info and download link here. Direct small download here. Supports Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista (x32/x64).
You install it, then you can “print” a GREAT looking PDF document directly from Microsoft Word or any other program that has a “print” option. You can export Word docs, make eBooks, even make a PDF of a webpage. (Click here for the PDF I made of this page while I was in “post-writing” admin mode.)
I almost think that it looks better than PDFs made from Distiller, at least with the one-click settings in CutePDF. (Acrobat has many many deep menus for changing various things, I’ll still use that for outputting books to send to the printer. But CutePDF opens faster, renders faster, and looks better for simple things like a book proposal or a business letter.)
You click on “print” from whatever program you’re in, then you have to pick “CutePDF writer” from your drop-down list of “printers.”
